It only makes sense that we’ve met here, because our countries though separated by the ocean are close neighbors,” Putin said in Anchorage.

NEWS ANALYSIS. Several leaders from across Europe are set to travel to Washington on Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet with the American president. The Ukrainian crisis now pits Kyiv and the main European governments against Moscow and Washington.

It was a welcome tailored for a close friend, not a war criminal, and it looked to the Ukrainians like their nightmare.

With President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to meet in Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine, the optics could be setting the stage for a normalized U.

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

The papers, laying out the sequence of events and including the phone numbers of several officials, were found around 9 a.m. on Friday and sent to NPR by a guest of the hotel.

All eyes will be the Alaskan city that has provided a world stage for presidents and leaders in recent history

Melania Trump wrote a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for President Donald Trump to hand-deliver during the Alaska summit. The two world leaders sat down together in Anchorage on Aug.